I forward this invitation prepared by some comrades to prepare a bulletin. In this project, as of today, there are people from America, Portugal, Spain, Norway and France. You may contact me if you are interested (intipele (at) gmail.com).

Dear comrades :

We, the comrades who are currently forming Communist Democracy (Luxemburgist) and Fora Libertarian Left, would like to start the publication of an international bulletin or magazine.We know that there are many groups or individuals that lay claims on the differentalternatives to the traditional currents, different from Social-Democratic reformism as well asBolshevism. We believe that these alternatives have to be spread as much as possible amongthe worldwide proletariat. Even more so, considering the global crisis in which Humanity isimmersed today.

We believe it is necessary that the organizations and the activists who stand for the autoemancipationof the proletariat without mediations, for socialism and radical democracy, forequality and freedom, for internationalism and revolution, should work together. We are afew. But the alternatives we propose must reach more visibility. This being in opposition tocapitalism and other alternatives that have demonstrated serious errors. These errors keepbeing put forward as alternatives, and they keep attracting many proletarians. Apart fromother reasons, since alternatives as the ones you and we back up are not visible, they areabsolutely unknown and a minority.

We are few, barely around ten activists present in Argentina, Spain, Norway and France. Wehave contacts, supporters… But we are just those militants. Each one of us has had previousexperiences and is part of other social organizations or labour unions. But as a “luxemburgist”group, we have been working for a little time. In this period, we contacted other groups andisolated activists with similar positions. It is to you all that we are addressing this proposalnow.

We would like to work with whoever shares these same values. This would be done withoutgiving up anything. Neither the autonomy of everyone, or the possibility of uniting in thefuture. We think that an appropriate way of starting this collaboration could be a bulletin or aninternational magazine, multilingual, with at first an irregular periodicity, where the analysisof the problems that faces the proletariat in the global capitalist society would be a priority.We also consider that it could be important that members of different organizations worktogether in the elaboration of these analyses. Even though the bulletin will mainly bedistributed on the web (at least at the beginning) we want it to have the right format so that itcan be printed out and distributed on hard copy.As a concrete proposal (of course your opinion is welcomed, we are just presenting what wewould like, but we wish to progress with you) we propose the following :

Title: ‘Social Critic’ or ‘Proletarian Critic’

Subtitle: ‘revolutionary socialist bulletin for democracy and equality’ or ‘marxist(luxemburgist) bulletin for democracy and equality’

Presentation (to be added at the end of each issue): ‘Our objective is to contribute to theinformation and analysis of social struggles and revolutionary movements in the world. Weare inspired by Marxism, and in particular Luxemburgism, but not as dogmas (which is not atall what they are), but rather as tools that strengthen the free genuine critical spirit, in theanalysis of society and its necessary transformation by the vast majority. We fight capitalismand all forms of oppression. We defend the idea that “the workers’ emancipation will becarried out by the workers themselves”, we advocate a democratic, free and egalitarian societybased on solidarity : a socialist society.”

Eventually, we may add a summary of principles in several languages at the end of thebulletin, for example:

The bulletin would have its own website, through which it will be distributed. Administeredwith the Spip software, it would allow its control by each participant.

Its periodicity would be at first irregular (however at least one every three months). Eventhough the objective is to obtain some regularity in a short period.

It would include articles and news accepted by all. And it would be presented in the languagesof the participants (this implies therefore translations).

Its length would be of about 20 pages

If we have too many texts, we believe the ones analysing global issues or specific strugglesthat may help as references to broader ones should be treated as a priority. The same wouldobviously apply for the ones sticking to the news. However, all the texts may be added on thewebsite.

That isn´t a problem. We want to do the bulletin with all possibles comrades of all possibles places and in all posibles languages.

The idea of the bulletin, like ElIndio says, is being already debated between some comrades. But it´s a very recent debate. It was proposed that before it was neccesary to debate our same approachs, because we are in different groups. We think that the open discussion in this Forum could be a previous passage, for our same debate, for contrast with others, and for that more comrades can join in the debate and in the bulletin.